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Challenges and potential improvements in hospital patient flow: the contribution of frontline, top and middle management professionals
Raffaella Gualandi, Cristina Masella, Daniela Viglione, Daniela TartagliniThis study aims to describe and understand the contributions of frontline, middle and top management healthcare professionals in detecting areas of potential improvement in…
The need to integrate in primary healthcare: nurse identity constructions of pharmacists as entrepreneurs
Natalia D'Souza, Shane ScahillThis study explores nurses' views as to whether they see community pharmacists as “entrepreneurial” and what this might mean for working together in primary care. Pharmacists are…
Lean implementation within healthcare: imaging as fertile ground
Eloise Radcliffe, Maria Kordowicz, Caroline Mak, Guy Shefer, David Armstrong, Patrick White, Mark AshworthThe purpose of this paper is to understand the barriers and enablers to lean implementation as part of an imaging quality improvement programme from a socio-cultural perspective.
Health coalition collaboration network, perceived satisfaction and success
Tyler Prochnow, Megan S. Patterson, Joseph Sharkey, M. Renee Umstattd MeyerThe health equity and prosperity of communities is closely linked to the effectiveness and success of local health coalitions. Social network analysis (SNA) is one mechanism to…
Capacity for optimal performance of healthcare supply chain functions: competency, structural and resource gaps in the Northern Region of Ghana
Roger Ayimbillah Atinga, Samuel Dery, Simon Peter Katongole, Moses AikinsThe study drew on capacity framework around the individual, organisational, health system and wider context to explore gaps in health supply chain (HSC) workers capacity and…
The German health care Innovation Fund – An incentive for innovations to promote the integration of health care
Anne Berghöfer, Denes G. Göckler, Jörg Sydow, Carolin Auschra, Lauri Wessel, Martin GerschMany health systems face challenges such as rising costs and lacking quality, both of which can be addressed by improving the integration of different health care sectors and…
